About Travel Style

Volunteer

Voluntourism combines vacation travel with volunteering at the destination visited. It's also spawned a new vocabulary: voluntourist, ethical holidays, travel philanthropy, and more. Voluntourism is aligned with the more established concept of "sustainable tourism," defined by Sustainable Travel International as "lessening the toll that travel and tourism takes on the environment and local cultures." This travel style is a seamlessly integrated combination of voluntary service to a destination, and the best, traditional elements of travel - arts, culture, geography, history and recreation - in that destination. More simply put, Voluntourism is travelling to another place to directly interact with the destination and its residents with the objective of improving their well-being through socio-cultural development or environmental conservation by providing volunteer assistance and/or good and services.

Weddings

The ever-popular destination wedding, affectionately called the "weddingmoon", combines the wedding, reception and honeymoon together in one location. The destination wedding is generally held at a desirable location that allows the wedding guests to vacation and spend more quality time with the wedding couple. It typically involves under 40 people and a few days of activities for all the guests. The destination wedding is the central location that the bride and groom chose as their "headquarters". Activities are then planned for their guests from this location. These destination weddings can be an exotic destination or the hometown in which you grew up.

Wellness

Whale watching

There are few more rewarding and uplifting experiences than whale watching. The growing popularity of whale watching holidays is down to the excitement of the open sea, breathtaking scenery and the magnificent whales themselves. Whale watching holidays will bring you into contact with strikingly beautiful countries and unspoilt landscapes. Some of the most exciting whale watching take place against the unforgettably scenic backdrop of unusual destinations.

Winter

Much of the Canadian landscape is blanketed in snow in winter, with snowfall beginning in late October and temperatures generally going below the freezing point. However, winters are much milder on the west coast, where if any snow falls, it doesn't stay long, and golfers have been known to hit the links year-round. Canadian winters offer ideal conditions for dream ski vacations. The ski season runs from December until late March in the east, and extends to late May (and sometimes even June) in the ski hills of the west.